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Meanings of side-whiskers in English
Synonyms
Examples for "burnside"
Examples for "burnside"
1
At the rail stood Ridgely Greathouse, big, florid, his burnside whiskers twitching.
2
He wrote in a faint scrawl, Help me to that burnside.
3
Mr Burnside says the question then is: where will these people go?
4
Mr Burnside said he would meet the paramilitary group again if asked.
5
Burnside hoped this might be the beginning of a great Union victory.
1
He laid the flat of it below his left sideburn.
2
The .308 round exploded perfectly on his right sideburn.
3
The sideburn, so carefully groomed for so long, lost its contours, an island swathed in seaweed.
4
His brown hair grew lavishly onto his face, happy curlicues of sideburn and mustache and beard.
5
Except for the occasional hint of a Regency sideburn, however, his art reflects nothing of Georgian London.
1
Then she went downstairs and found her father eating a mutton chop.
2
And he was very particular that the mutton chop should be well cooked.
3
The bones below the neck, broiled, make a good mutton chop.
4
Really, I'd feel exactly like a mutton chop in a tissue-paper flounce, myself.
5
So am I. I quite forgot that mutton chop of yours to-day, doctor.
Usage of side-whiskers in English
1
He had neatly-trimmed side-whiskers and moustache, while Johnson had a full beard.
2
Jeremiah blinked solemnly at Roscoe Orlando's florid side-whiskers and wide sensuous mouth.
3
There is a slight difference here, too, for this man wears side-whiskers.
4
The word has an Early Victorian sound that suggests side-whiskers and leg-of-mutton trousers.
5
Even stout and stubborn old gentlemen with side-whiskers have their uses.
6
An otherwise clean-shaven florid face was adorned with brown side-whiskers growing rather long.
7
Silly rot at forty. He clutched his side-whiskers with frenzied hands.
8
These two have rallied their host upon his modishly trimmed side-whiskers.
9
Give him two cornucopias, instead of one, to balance those side-whiskers--
10
There was nothing small about him but his short, white side-whiskers.
11
Comrade Wotherspoon was a tall, thin man with side-whiskers and a high voice.
12
Also, he still shaved his chin, sporting a pair of formidable gray side-whiskers.
13
BEERMANN is in the fifties; jovial; lively; with gray side-whiskers and chin carefully shaved.
14
I doubt whether there is a pair of side-whiskers to match them in London.
15
One in the centre, venerable for gold eye-glasses and grey side-whiskers, acted as chairman.
16
He had splendid side-whiskers, though their yellow hue did not show in the photograph.